What are flaws of Indian Education system

Education is perhaps the strongest tool which single handedly has the capacity to change lives. Whenever mankind has seen dark days it is the learning and education which has brought it to light. Education makes us sensitive and aware at the same time allows a person to earn a living and have a respectable life. This was clearly embarked in our conventional Indian education system of ‘guru – shishya parampara’ and ‘gurukuls’. However with the coming of the foreign rulers and the British the whole concept and process of education changed. They educated us to keep us ignorant and slaved never foretelling the whole thing. It was the grit and perseverance of the Indians who fought and achieved the education and with the Independence achieved a bright future looked ahead. However this dream was extremely short lived because our education system gradually declined and today it has become a grave issue for the government.

Here is a small list as to What is wrong with the Indian education system?

1) Access to education.

The first problem is in itself the availability of education. Half of the population does not have access to even basic education, and only a small number achieves a university degree. With a population of 125 crores we have a handful of universities that are appropriately complete in all respects and have the capacity to intake more than 10000 students in one academic year. This is very late, 33% of our children drop out of school because their villages do not have higher secondary or intermediate schools.

2).Lack of practical approach

In most obvious cases the lack of practicality in learning reduces the focus of the students and forces them to concentrate harder to absorb info. These forces them to merely parrot learn and results in behavior change making them forgetful rather than having it as a lifelong learning.

3).Parental and Societal Pressure

There is immeasurable pressure applied from parents and their society to merely score well in exams. The use education is only for a job and sometime just merely to fetch better marriage proposals and good dowry. Creativity and encouragement to follow the talents and adopt profession as per interest is never a chance in our system. Desk sticking stud even dominates sport and has resulted in dwarfism in mental strength of the country`s youth.

4).Lack of Choice

There is severe lack of choice and diversity in subjects being taught in school and colleges. The conventional set system forces students to adopt even those subjects whom they do not find interest in reading or understanding. No linguistic knowledge is given of foreign languages or any knowledge of music. Daring to choose a subject outside the realm of the conventional means social disrespect or lack of employment opportunities.

5) Snail pace of Change

The government has brought about changes in the Indian education system but it is at snail’s pace. The changes are introduced in a year and only implemented after 3-4 years and by this time the need for change has run short of the race. By the time change is incorporated the red tapism and corruption destroys the actual intensity and brings the system back to its original condition. Public interest is perhaps at the last end of the rope.